Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot ...

More than 10,000 tourists made their way to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park this year to see the volcano Kilauea erupt three times. These recent eruptions are effusive eruptions, which refer to ...

Lava flows are masses of molten rock that pour onto the Earth's surface during an effusive eruption. Lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park pours into the Pacific Ocean.

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With the volcano beginning to expel lava Sunday night ... "What we are seeing now is an effusive eruption," Bacolcol told The Associated Press. "We are looking at this on a day-to-day basis." ...

Bacolcol said there was an effusive eruption Sunday night with lava flows observed to reach 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the volcano’s summit. “Lava flows are slow moving and effusive ...

The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern ... "It's a style of volcanic activity that is effusive, slow flowing, not violently eruptive, like would be the case with a subduction ...

There are many different kinds of volcanoes, ranging from the Hawaiian type, which produces gentle, effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety ...

The volcano is currently in an effusive period that's lasted 200 years so far, but geologists know it’ll eventually switch back to a phase of explosive activity. Kilauea is the most active of ...